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Video game on Peshawar school attack off after criticism
Pakistan has removed a video game based on horrendous attack at an army-run school in Peshawar by heavily-armed Taliban militants, after criticism.
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At least 150 people, mostly children, were killed in the attack on the school on December 16, 2014. The attack prompted Punjab province’s IT Board to develop an Android game and release it last month. After running for weeks, the game failed to attract favourable reviews and the families of the victims were not impressed.
Many took to social media to flay the idea as well as the attempt. “The APS game has been removed. It was in poor taste. Thank you for highlighting the mistake. We have made the amends,” tweeted Umar Saif, chief of Punjab IT Board.
The first-person shooter game titled ‘Pakistan Army Retribution’ begins with the national anthem and depicts events that took place on the dreadful day. The player’s task is to lead soldiers into the main building and eliminate the heavily armed terrorists scattered throughout the premises.
Blast targeting cops kills many:
At least 11 people, including security personnel, were killed and 20 others injured today in a bomb blast near a checkpost in northwestern Pakistan. The explosion occurred near the vehicle of line officer Nawab Shah in Jamrud area of Khyber tribal region, police said. The explosive device was planted in a motorbike, it said. The dead include police, civilians and at least one child.
Khyber is part of Pakistan’s semi autonomous tribal belt on the Afghan border where security forces are fighting the Pakistani Taliban. No group claimed responsibility for the attack until late evening. Pakistan witnesses frequent bomb and suicide attacks blamed on extremist militant groups and troops have for years been fighting home-grown armed groups in the tribal belt.
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